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The Rigged Housing Market
An upscale housing development in Wilton, Connecticut (all of Wilton is upscale) is having no trouble selling its 20 units for $800,000 each. On average, homes in that town now fetch more than $1 million a piece. And real estate experts only rank the region that...
Wall Street Charges Ahead
Caught in the Act
Medical science has long known that the optic nerve runs from the retina of our eyeballs to the visual cortex of our brains, letting us see what's going on around us. Don't look now, but another "optic nerve" has evolved. Rather than running to our brains, however,...
This week in OtherWords: March 5, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Timothy Karr explains what's so bad about Comcast's plan to gobble up Time Warner Cable while Jim Hightower weighs in on Greg Abbott's choice to campaign with Ted Nugent at his side. I'm new to Twitter @ESGreco, but have realized that...
Why You Should Fear Big Bad Cable
Twenty-five years ago this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee introduced an open protocol for sharing information that gave everyday Internet users the power over what they created and whom they connected with online. His concept quickly evolved into the World Wide Web. One...
Exporting Extremism
In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have written anti-gay discrimination into state law in the name of religious freedom. In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni signed an even more extremist law that sentences LGBT people to life in prison and...
It’s Time for Maryland’s Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share
Big chicken-processing companies generate 1.5 billion pounds of fowl waste annually in Delmarva (the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia tri-state area), and it's choking the Chesapeake Bay. Each year, Marylanders pay a small tax that goes toward the Chesapeake Bay...
Take this Compromise with a Grain of Salt
The two cousins who run the private equity giant KKR took home an astounding total of $327 million in 2013, new regulatory filings reveal. Much of this lush windfall came via "carried interest," Wall Street-speak for the cut that private equity kingpins take on the...
A Sweet Victory
The Food and Drug Administration recently came out with a sweet surprise. Its proposed new nutrition label will finally give us a bit of key information we need to understand our food: the amount of added sugars. If you look at a nutrition label now, you will see how...
Ted Nugent Falls off His Rocker
Ted Nugent, the old rocker from the Seventies, is now just plain old. And off his rocker. A political novelty act for the far right and a front man for the National Rifle Association, Nugent regularly spews venomous, vulgar, race-laced, abusive hate speech about...
